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Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by DamnInteresting »

onion2k wrote: post #72
DamnInteresting wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be nice if we could have a ratio rule in CSS for all block elements, so adjusting one dimension would automatically alter the other, preserving the ratio at all screen sizes. e.g.: width: 2000px; max-width: 100%; ratio: 16/9; Of course this gets tricky when width and height are both specified and they don't match the given ratio, but that just means that one needs to always override the other. Edit to add: O…

Aspect Ratio is coming in CSS4. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/03/aspect-ratio-unit-c...

This pleases me.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by swebs »

philg_jr wrote: post #57
swebs wrote: post #42

Whenever Firefox is automatically updated through my package manager, any open instances refuse to load any new pages or tabs until I restart Firefox . Needless to say, this is absolutely infuriating when I'm in the middle of something important. Does anyone know how to disable this feature?

Couple things. 1. Why update an app when you're in the middle of using the app? I dunno, I use Fedora, so I don't execute 'dnf update' until I'm ready to reboot the system, usually because I'm anticipating a kernel update. 2. Firefox has a pretty reliable "Restore Previous Session" feature that works well. I have also been known to throw a SIGTERM at Firefox and just let it prompt me when I start it again for the "So…

>Why update an app when you're in the middle of using the app?

Updates are automatic every day.

>I use Fedora, so I don't execute 'dnf update' until I'm ready to reboot the system, usually because I'm anticipating a kernel update

How often does that happen? It doesn't seem reasonable to put off security updates that have already been fixed and are simply waiting to install.

Firefox is the only program I've run into where automatic updates have led to a negative experience. Every single other program handles them just fine.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by jorvi »

I wish they made the macOS version more of a priority. There are two bugs in Bugzilla (window doesn't use CoreAnimation[1], h264/video isn't properly accelerated since quantum[2]) that together cut battery life in half compared to using Chrome or Safari. These have been in there for two years (!) and have varingly been either priority 2 or fix-optional (!!). I understand that there are limited resources but making your browser nigh unusable for on-the-go should mean these bugs get priority 1 or priority critical.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1400787#c4

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by liveoneggs »

asark wrote: post #58
liveoneggs wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use it to accidentally mute my computer and accidentally cancel loading web pages.

I've had to remove a lot of the stuff from mine because, turns out, when I hit certain modifier'd key combos with my left hand I tend to rest my right ring finger at the top of one of the number keys... close enough to the touchbar to trigger it. Didn't know that about myself, but now I do, and I've had to clear out about half my touchbar to keep it from being a problem. Turns out if you press "play/pause" on there,…

yeah I removed the entire left side of the touchbar but the escape key can't be moved.

What's funny is that if escape was a real button I would probably really like the touchbar!

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by ganeshkrishnan »

freehunter wrote: post #34
Vinnl wrote: post #28

> Scroll anchoring keeps content from jumping as images and ads load at the top of the page That's a nice little quality-of-life improvement. It's a little annoyance that you don't really consciously notice because you're so used to it, but I recall reading about Chrome adding a similar feature and suddenly realising how annoying it is when you're reading something, and then suddenly it jumps out of your view due to…

Wouldn't it be nice if browsers or servers could reserve that space even if it's not loaded? Like "this is going to be a 500x200 image so let's load 500x200 pixels worth of empty space until it's fully loaded" and avoid jumping.

Then the page won't be responsive. The image width and height changes depending on your viewport size.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by cpuguy83 »

DeusExMachina wrote: post #5

> Added basic support for macOS Touch Bar This was actually one of my major annoyances, since I use this feature often. I'm glad they added it, chances are others use it too.

For me the only reason I'd want this is actually touch-id with webauthn, but it's not supported :(

Works on Chrome as I found out today.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by mFixman »

liveoneggs wrote: post #84
asark wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had to remove a lot of the stuff from mine because, turns out, when I hit certain modifier'd key combos with my left hand I tend to rest my right ring finger at the top of one of the number keys... close enough to the touchbar to trigger it. Didn't know that about myself, but now I do, and I've had to clear out about half my touchbar to keep it from being a problem. Turns out if you press "play/pause" on there,…

yeah I removed the entire left side of the touchbar but the escape key can't be moved. What's funny is that if escape was a real button I would probably really like the touchbar!

I just remap Caps Lock to escape. You can do it now in the vanilla MacOS settings.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by hannob »

benol wrote: post #74

Considering the recent "Spectre is here to stay" paper [1], can anyone comment on whether Firefox should be considered secure until the work on process-per-site lands (I believe they are working on it)? [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05178

> can anyone comment on whether Firefox should be considered secure until the work on process-per-site lands

No and Yes.

No, theoretically there could be spectre vulns. Practically we have seen zero spectre-based attacks in the wild. It's not a big deal.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by Leace »

abrowne wrote: post #27
ddavis wrote: post #17

On macOS: still waiting for interactions with the address bar to be smooth and fast. It's frustratingly laggy in my opinion. Does anyone else feel this way? For me it's the only reason I still gravitate towards Chrome on a Mac.

AIUI, Mozilla is rewriting the address bar ("QuantumBar"), and you can now toggle it on in Nightly by setting browser.urlbar.quantumbar to true in about:config. I've only tried it on Linux, but it seems smoother.

Thanks for the pointer, the toggle works in stable too but the smoothness you describe just isn't there yet :)
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